Prussian Army

The Prussian Army was the armed forces of the Kingdom of Prussia, founded in 1701 by Friedrich I of Prussia. They were famed as some of Europe's best-trained troops, thanks to the reforms of Frederick the Great.

History
When Prussia was founded in 1701 by Friedrich of Brandenburg, it required an army to act as its example of their might. Due to superior military doctrines researched at Magdeburg, they fought the Great Polish War with much success, and also fought in the War of the Austrian Succession. From 1715 to 1740 Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia relentlessly drilled his army and made it into a fighting machine that his son Frederick the Great would use to defeat Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession in the 1740s and Seven Years War of the 1750s. Prussia's armies were again tested in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and they became the strongest army in Europe.